From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 15:28:56 GMT
Subject: Re: Retrieving last tag of a working tree
Message-ID: <200812211628.59120.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <21071491.post@talk.nabble.com>

the_jack wrote:
> Precompiler assigns this string to a variable. At this moment, version.h is
> filled by python script that calls "git-describe --tag HEAD" and parses the
> output. This works, but it's not quite reliable. There has to be a better
> way for getting the last tag of current working tree. If I checkout an
> earlier tagged version (0.70), I would need to automatically get 0.70 inside
> version.h

'git describe' is indeed the tool for this.  You have not said in what
way it fails, so here's an educated guess:

Up until 7e425c4 (describe: Make --tags and --all match lightweight
tags more often, 2008-10-13) which will only be in 1.6.1, using --tags
does not match a lightweight tag if there is also an annotated tag
available.

-Thomas

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch